I''m having trouble with this windows skeleton that I made.. it compiles without any errors or warnings, but when I ry to run it, it simply doesn''t show up. Can anyone help a poor white fool like myself? // a windows skeleton #include ''windows.h'' LRESULT CALLBACK WinProc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM); char szWinName[] = "MyWin"; // name of window class int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hThisInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpszArgs, int nWinMode) { HWND hwnd; WNDCLASSEX wcl; MSG msg; // define the window class wcl.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX); wcl.lpszClassName = szWinName; wcl.lpfnWndProc = WinProc; wcl.style = 0; wcl.hIcon = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION); wcl.hIconSm = NULL; wcl.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW); wcl.lpszMenuName = NULL; // no menu wcl.cbClsExtra = 0; wcl.cbWndExtra = 0; // make the background of the window black wcl.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH) GetStockObject(BLACK_BRUSH); // register the window class if(!RegisterClassEx(&wcl)) return 0; // if the class doesn''t register, break it // the window has been defined and registered, // but now it''s time to create it hwnd = CreateWindow(szWinName, // name of window class "Windows Skeleton", //title WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW, //style CW_USEDEFAULT, // x CW_USEDEFAULT, // y CW_USEDEFAULT, // width CW_USEDEFAULT, // height NULL, // no parent window NULL, // no menu hThisInstance, //instance handle NULL // no additional arguments ); // diplay the window ShowWindow(hwnd, nWinMode); UpdateWindow(hwnd); // create a message loop while(GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0)) { TranslateMessage(&msg); DispatchMessage(&msg); } return msg.wParam; } // the message handler LRESULT CALLBACK WinProc(HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { switch(message){ case WM_DESTROY: // terminate the program PostQuitMessage(0); break; default: return DefWindowProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam); } return 0; } GO LEAFS GO!

I''m not an expert in Windows-programming, but I think you forgot to set the instance-handle:

wcl.hInstance = hThisInstance;

Hope this helps.

In the CreateWindow function, the fourth argument(the style argument) must be: WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW / WS_VISIBLE

Also setting wcl.hInstance = hThisInstance is correct.

That should do it, good luck!

Edited by - isolier on 4/21/00 8:28:19 PM

You don''t have to explicitly specify WS_VISIBLE, as you''re calling ShowWindow(). It might even be implicit, but I couldn''t say for sure.

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quote: Original post by Isolier
In the CreateWindow function, the fourth argument(the style argument) must be: WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW / WS_VISIBLE

Also setting wcl.hInstance = hThisInstance is correct.

That should do it, good luck!

I thought that WS_VISIBLE was unnessary when you call
ShowWindow(hwnd, nCmdShow), because in ShowWindow(..) your are telling the window how to show in the nCmdShow-parameter.
But perhaps I got all this wrong, who knows...

Yay! Thanks, I got it.. I''m new to windows programming, so I have no idea why I would even include that in the class definition, but thanks for the people who helped! I got it running with:

wcl.hInstance = hThisInstance;

GO LEAFS GO!